Suzanne Collins Quotes

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“Peeta?" I creep along the bank.

"Well, don't step on me.”

“Great. Now I have to go back and tell Haymitch I want an eighty-year-old and Nuts and Volts for my allies. He'll love that.”

“Poison. The perfect weapon for a snake.”

“When I break into the clearing, she's on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She just has the time to reach her hand through the mesh and say my name before the spear enters her body.”

“Betrayal. That’s the first thing I feel, which is ludicrous. For there to be betrayal, there would have had to been trust first.”

“If he wants me broken, then I will have to be whole.”

“Isn't it strange that I know you'd risk your life to save mine, but I don't even know what your favorite color is?”

“A spark could be enough to set them ablaze.”

“At the moment, the choice would be simple. I can survive just fine without either of them.”

“Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel.
"You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know," Haymitch says.”

“I knew it. In this way, Peeta's not hard to predict. While I was wallowing around on the floor of that cellar, thinking only of myself, he was here, thinking of me. Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel.”

“But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you.”

“Instead of satisfying me, the kisses have the opposite effect, of make my need greater. I thought I was something of an expert on hunger, but this is an entirely new kind.”

“Katniss: 'What about you? Ive seen you in the market. You can lift hundred pound bags of flour'. I snap at him
Tell him that. Thats not nothing.
Peeta: Yes and Im sure the arena will be full of bags of flour for me to chuck at people.”

“Let the Seventy-forth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real.”

“It's funny, because even though they're rattling on about the Games, it's all about where they were or what they were doing or how they felt when a specific event occurred…. Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena”

“there's plenty of blame to go around.”

“You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.”

“The raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where the mouth is. And I think the word he's trying to say is 'please'. Pity, not vengeance sends my arrow flying into his skull.”

“Birds are settling down for the night, singing lullabies to their young.”

“I remember everything about you," says Peeta, tucking a loose strand of hair behind my ear. "You're the one who wasn't paying attention.”

“I do think you're mad and I'll still go with you.”

“Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance.”

“What was that you were saying just before the food arrived? Something about me… no competition… best thing that ever happened to you…”

“Pity does not get you aid. Admiration at your refusal to give in does.”

“If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.”

“Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch?" I say.
"Yes! Perfect. One is always much braver with an audience," he says. "Look at the courage Peeta just displayed!"
It's all I can do not to slap him.”

“Just the perfect touch of rebellion," says Haymitch "Very nice."
Rebellion?”

“It's as if I'm Finnick, watching images of my life flash by. The mast of a boat, a silver parachute, Mags laughing, a pink sky, Beetee's trident, Annie in her wedding dress, waves breaking over rocks. Then its over.”

“Flight is essential, but I can't let my fear show.”

“Maybe I'll be like the man in the Hanging Tree still waiting for an answer.' Gale who I have never seen cry has tears in his eyes. To keep them from spilling over. I reach forward and press my lips against his. We taste of heat, ashes and misery.”

“I don't know what it is with Finnick and bread, but he seems obsessed with handling it.”

“And so I'm stupid for thinking they might be useful. Because of something Johanna Mason said while she was oiling her breasts for wrestling.”

“Roses. Wolf mutts. Tributes. Frosted Dolphins. Friends. Mockingjays. Stylists. Me. Everything screams in my dreams tonight.”

“Courage only counts when you can count.”

“Maybe I'd think that, too, Caesar," says Petta bitterly, "if it weren't for the baby."
There. He's done it again.”

“It's strange to be so physically close to someone who's so distant”

“what is the worst pain? To me, it's always the pain that is present.”

“To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed.”

“So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.”

“Sometimes when things are particularly bad, my brain will give me a happy dream.”

“They more than do their work, they take pride in it. Like Cinna.”

“Katniss: I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off.
Peeta: Yes, frosting. The final defence of the dying. (252)”

“Well, I can't leave Mags behind," says Finnick. "She's one of the few people who actually likes me.”

“hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home," I say. "Katniss, I live three houses away from you," he says.”

“I'm going to be the Mockingjay.”

“Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen.”

“Katniss, there is no District Twelve…”

“All around the dining hall, you can feel the rejuvenating effect that a good meal can bring on. The way it can make people kinder, funnier, more optimistic, and remind them it's not a mistake to go on living. It's better than any medicine.”